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Matching your job to the right Dunlop Bag
By Tuppence Maranovna · 11 years ago
Dunlop bags have a huge storage capacity, have lots of different sections and are stylishly unique in a way that lots of other passenger, messenger or flight bags struggle to achieve. This makes them a ...
The gaming history of Super Mario, from Donkey Kong to the Super Mario Land
By Tuppence Maranovna · 12 years ago
Mario hit the ground running in 1981 with the release of Donkey Kong. However, back then he went by the name of Jumpman and his goal in life was rescuing his girlfriend Pauline from the ...
Charlie Brooker gives political and social satire a lease of life in Black Mirror
By Tuppence Maranovna · 12 years ago
Charlie Brooker is well known for his social and political satirical commentary. Featuring in broadsheet columns and TV panel shows, he’s got a reputation for stone faced delivery and comic timing, but in his TV ...
A short critique of the entertainment news industry
By Tuppence Maranovna · 12 years ago
When it comes to news of any kind there are varying degrees of complexity, understanding, angle, focus and insight. The way that The Times covers a topic is vastly different, and some would argue superior, ...
Super Mario Games releases on the Nintendo 3DS
By Tuppence Maranovna · 12 years ago
Mario wasn't always super. In fact he wasn't even always Mario, but now there's no denying it; Mario on the Nintendo 3DS is definitely high in the super qualities. While he's still got more than ...
The Changing Face of Entertainment News and Reviews in the 21st Century
By Tuppence Maranovna · 12 years ago
Whether it's the latest album reviews or news about the big budget films that are about to hit the cinemas, the landscape of entertainment news throughout the industry changed irrevocably in the advent of the ...
Gundam, from the early drawings of Yoshiyuki Tomino to Nintendo 3DS entertainment
By Tuppence Maranovna · 12 years ago
Gundam has only evolved visually in the slightest of ways since its inception in 1979, which has got to be a testimony to the ongoing credibility of the legendary Sunrise animation classic. Now a massive ...
Entertainment On the Road the beat generation from books to film
By Tuppence Maranovna · 12 years ago
The beat generation is one of the founding fathers of the counter culture revolution in the US. Built on the back of Jazz music and spearheaded by a selection of writers, the beat generation aimed ...
The Best Entertainment News & Releases of 2010
By Tuppence Maranovna · 12 years ago
2010 marked the end of the first decade of the 21st Century and brought with it some of the great entertainment news and releases.
Amongst the best from the music world was the news early ...
Top 5 best selling albums in Britain in 2010
By Tuppence Maranovna · 12 years ago
2010 was a great year for music in Britain with some amazing album releases. Album reviews were flying off the shelves for breakthrough brands, but it was the old guard that ruled the roost at ...
Vivienne Westwood – From Punk Albums to Fashion, Leather Jackets and Orange Hair
By Tuppence Maranovna · 12 years ago
Punk and New Wave are largely terms used in the music industry to describe album genres and musical styles, but Vivienne Westwood changed all that from around 1971 onwards. Over the course of the next ...
Album reviews & rarities – The defining records of the noughties
By Tuppence Maranovna · 12 years ago
Every decade music writers, review mongers and critics decry the state of modern music, preaching the end of the quality of their youth. However, hindsight usually proves them wrong and the noughties have been no ...
The Growth of Dunlop Bags into Iconic Fashion Status
By Tuppence Maranovna · 12 years ago
Dunlop obviously hasn’t always made bags, in fact it was originally set up to capitalise on the patent of John Dunlop, who had thought he’d invented the pneumatic tyre for his grandson. While the patent ...
Dunlop bags: From rubber tires to bags, sports clothes and fashion
By Tuppence Maranovna · 12 years ago
Dunlop has changed a lot since it began in 1989. From its beginnings in tires thanks to John Dunlop’s pneumatic tire patent it has grown, split and dispersed in a number of different directions. Not ...
Top 10 snug and warm women’s winter coats styles
By Tuppence Maranovna · 13 years ago
When it comes to keeping warm this winter, it doesn’t get much better than a thick and toasty warm winter coats. However, there are a lot of different styles of women’s winter coats to choose ...
Lingerie – A short, but seductive history of the perfect gift
By Tuppence Maranovna · 13 years ago
The term lingerie originates from the brilliantly seductive French language, in which lingerie refers to any underwear worn by men or women. However, over the last century or so the term has taken on a ...
Lingerie Gifts - What’s the Worst that can Happen
By Tuppence Maranovna · 13 years ago
OK, so Christmas is on the way and then shortly following that it’s Valentine’s Day, and to be honest birthday presents are always tough, so surely lingerie is always a go to gift that can ...
Music news - The magazines that shaped the music industry
By Tuppence Maranovna · 13 years ago
Music news as we know it today developed out of the early magazines that caught onto the growth of the popular music industry early on in the 20th Century. Melody Maker was one of the ...
The electric guitar, the greatest entertainment trip of all time
By Tuppence Maranovna · 13 years ago
When you break it down to its scientific function - converting string vibrations into electrical signals using electromagnetic induction - the guitar can sound a bit on the dull side. However, the reality is that ...
Entertainment in the 19th Century UK
By Tuppence Maranovna · 13 years ago
In the aftermath of the collapse of the Spanish, Portuguese, Roman, Chinese and Mughal empires, the 19th Century was typified by the growth in the influence of Britain and the United States on the world ...